An Ohio man allegedly punched his lawyer in the face in a Cleveland courtroom Tuesday upon finding out he was sentenced to almost five decades in prison, NBCNews reports. The altercation, caught on video by a Cuyahoga County sheriff's deputy's body camera, shows David Chislton, 42, assaulting his defense attorney after finding out he was sentenced to 47 years. Chislton had

Even though Beijing was hesitant to admit to the existence of the re-education camps across the heavily Muslim region of Xinjiang, it is now trying to fend off growing criticism of the practice by inviting countries to visit the sites, according to Reuters. A report released on Thursday said China has taken at least three groups of foreign diplomats to visit the camps which

For almost 20 years, workers and visiting school children at a Grand Canyon museum may have been unknowingly exposed to radiation from three buckets of uranium sitting next to a taxidermy exhibit, according to allegations from a National Park Service safety director, The Guardian reports. The whistleblower says officials learned about the buckets last year and tried to hide the

The United Nation's Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said the human rights violations and abuses targeting civilians and children in the country may constitute war crimes on Thursday, according to National Public Radio. The report said even though the world's youngest country has been mired by a civil war that is bringing South Sudan to the verge of humanitarian

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from Florida on Thursday night while carrying three payloads, one of which is Israel's first lunar lander on a mission to make the Jewish state the fourth nation to ever achieve a controlled touchdown on the surface of the moon, according to The Associated Press. The cargo contains Beresheet, named for the biblical phrase "in the beginning,"

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's Emperor Akihito has devoted his 30-year reign to making amends for a war fought in his father's name, while adapting the 1,500-year-old monarchy to draw the ImperialFamily closer to the public. Whether kneeling beside Empress Michiko to speak intimately with disaster victims, or reciting his own poetry, Akihito has won deep affection among his people. The

By Simon Lewis NGAPALI BEACH, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi called for investment in the crisis-hit western state of Rakhine on Friday, saying the world had "focused narrowly on negative aspects" in the state from which some 730,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled since 2017. On a rare visit to Rakhine, Suu Kyi emphasised responsible business practices as she

Microsoft Corp on Wednesday said it had discovered cyberattacks directed at democratic institutions, think tanks and non-profit organizations in Europe and would offer a cyber security service to several countries to close security gaps, Reuters reported. The hacks occurred between September and December 2018, targeting employees of the German Council on Foreign Relations and

Federal officials said they were ending negotiations with California over the plan from the White House to roll back fuel economy rules which are intended to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions due to climate change on Wednesday, according to Reuters. Even though California and 19 more states have called on PresidentDonald Trump to abandon the proposal offered last year to

North Korea informed Italy last year that the daughter of its acting ambassador had asked to return home after her father left his post in Rome, the Italian foreign ministry said on Wednesday, Reuters reports. North Korean diplomat Jo Song Gil and his wife went missing in November, and a South Korean newspaper has reported that they have applied for asylum in an unspecified

New research says cervical cancer could be wiped out in most countries by the end of the 21st century, according to CBSNews. Prof. Karen Canfell from the Cancer Council New South Wales, who led the study, said on Wednesday the HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccine has been successful in drastically reducing incidents of cervical cancer wherever uptake has been high. Many are

Chinese state media reports a former high-ranking general has been sentenced to life in jail for corruption, BBCNews reports. Fang Fenghui, ex-chief of joint staff of the People's Liberation Army, was found guilty of bribery and having huge wealth that he had been unable to account for, according to Xinhua. The 67-year-old accompanied PresidentXi Jinping on his first meeting

The Australian government officially recognized the extinction of the Bramble Cay melomys on Monday, marking the first official extinction caused by human-induced climate change, according to Bloomberg. The small rodent lives on a small sand island in the Torres Strait, which is near the coast of Papua New Guinea, but the species has not been seen since 2009. Some scientists